Tumusifu graduated from Rwankeri Adventist Academy in November of 2016 with Impact Hope. This year, she has been studying Culinary Arts at the IPRC West technical school in Rwanda and is now participating in a culinary internship. Tumusifu is pictured here with Aurea,...

It had to be divine intervention. When Scott Thygeson, my father-in-law and retired school teacher, was meeting an old friend for breakfast at the Walla Walla University cafeteria, he came across a group of students talking and praying together. He was intrigued, so...

Jan 24, 2017 A Grateful ADRA Rwanda Worker Thankful for Donor’s Sponsoring of 98 Girls In January I got to help with the selection of the girls with ADRA Rwanda and the UNHCR. Then on January 23, all of our newly-sponsored 98 girls were on a bus along with our other...

When Hans was in Rwanda last September, before he had even come home, he called to tell me about the 98 girls who are walking from their refugee camp to school every single day—an 8 km walk each way. They faced the elements with no protection. Burning hot sun, pouring...

While visiting the Gihembe Refugee Camp in Rwanda this March, I talked to a delightful woman who is the head-mistress of the primary school at the camp. Her name is Françoise. Her sister is actually one of our 234 highschool students! Françoise was asking me if it is...

As I walked through the Gihembe refugee camp, the biggest building structure inside the camp was the Hope school. And though it was the biggest building, it was still made out of clay and wood and it still had the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)...

Twenty two years ago, approximately 800,000 people were massacred in Rwanda in the span of a hundred days, creating a generation of refugees. A lost generation, who fled utter destruction of buildings, industries, schools, roads, homes and most of all their lives....